Alexa ranking and PageRank

Alright, so you got a website up or maybe even a simple blog like this one.

Then the next question is, how effective is it? How do I track whether anyone's visiting my site? Well, a simple way that was mentioned in my earlier blog is to include a little code from statcounter.com in your template and you can check your stats for free.

Then again, say you are visiting some other website. How do you know if it's popular and that it has useful information?

One way is to check out it's alexa ranking. You can check it out at alexa.com
For example, click on 'Traffic Rankings' and then key in a website that you want to check out on, for example if you key in like yahoo.com, you'll find that it is Ranked 1, (btw google is 2nd).

Also, if you are using Mozilla Firefox, this is a great nifty tool. You actually need not have to go to Alexa.com or install it's toolbar to know the alexa ranking of the website you visit. Instead, it will automatically display the rankings of any site you surf plus it tells you PageRank too!

Quite cool, check it out here www.quirk.biz/searchstatus (reminder, it's only for mozilla firefox browsers)